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- 13 American women who changed the world
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A book, too, can be a star : the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of A wrinkle in time
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A ghost in the throat
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A hopeful heart : Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A man of iron : the turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for everyone : the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A truck full of money
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- All about Madame C.J. Walker
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- All the things we never knew
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Aly Raisman
- Amazing artists
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American daughter : a memoir
- American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Anne and her tower of giraffes : the adventurous life of the first giraffologist
- Astrid Lindgren
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ayrton Senna
- Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah
- Barkley : a biography
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Being Ram Dass
- Benedict XVI : a life, V. I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965
- Benjamin Franklin Butler : a noisy, fearless life
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie the motorcycle queen
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean King
- Birds, beasts, and relatives
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French chef"
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Clara Barton
- Brave leaders and activists
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Brothers and wives : inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building an orchestra of hope : how Favio Chávez taught children to make music from trash
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captain Tom Moore
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Celia Cruz
- Charles Darwin
- Charlie's good tonight : the life, the times, and the Rolling Stones : the authorized biography of Charlie Watts
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chuck Berry : an American life
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Close up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco Chanel : an illustrated biography
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America
- Covered in color : Christo & Jeanne-Claude's fabrics of freedom
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crown & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Attenborough
- David Bowie in comics
- Dazzlin' Dolly: : the songwriting, hit-singing, guitar-picking Dolly Parton
- De Gaulle
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana Taurasi
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Dilla time : the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Don Rickles : the merchant of venom : a biography
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Seuss
- Dressing up the stars : the story of movie costume designer Edith Head
- Edison
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- El Chapo : the untold story of the world's most Infamous drug lord
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Electable : why America hasn't put a woman in the White House... yet
- Eliot after The waste land
- Eliza Hamilton : founding mother
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth and Michael : the queen of Hollywood and the king of pop : a love story
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elusive : how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass
- Elvis Presley
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Evonne Goolagong
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Faith Ringgold : narrating the world in pattern and color
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Fighting for yes!: : the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding home : the journey of immigrants and refugees
- Finding my dance
- Firebrands : portraits of activists you never learned about in school
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- Francisco Pizarro : conqueror of the Inca Empire
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : voice for justice, voice for freedom
- Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- G.O.A.T. : Serena Williams : making the case for the greatest of all time
- G.O.A.T. : Tom Brady : making the case for greatest of all time
- G.O.A.T. football running backs
- Garbo
- George V : never a dull moment
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- Ghosting : a widow's voyage out : a memoir
- Giovanni da Verrazzano : explorer of the Atlantic Coast of North America
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Giuliani : the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor
- Give me liberty : the true story of Oswaldo Payá and his daring quest for a free Cuba
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grant
- Grant
- Grant
- Great masters, Shostakovich, his life & music
- Greta Thunberg
- Groundbreaking scientists
- Guts and genius : the story of three unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the '80s
- Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world
- Hanged! : Mary Surratt & the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
- Harriet Beecher Stowe : the inspiring life story of the abolition advocate
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry Houdini
- Hatemonger : Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the white nationalist agenda
- Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies
- Helen Keller
- Henry Hudson
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Heroic women of the art world : risking it all for art
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Himalaya bound : one family's quest to save their animals-- and an ancient way of life
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hokusaí : he saw the world in a wave
- Hollywood ending : Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence / Ken Auletta
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- How Bernie won : inside the revolution that's taking back our country-- and where we go from here
- How we can win : race, history and changing the money game that's rigged
- I am Ruby Bridges
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I begin with spring : the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau
- I could not do otherwise : the remarkable life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
- I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House
- I'm glad my mom died
- I'm glad my mom died
- Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- If you can dream it, you can do it : how 25 inspiring individuals found their dream jobs
- If you lived here you'd be famous by now : true stories from Calabasas
- If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
- If you're a kid like Gavin
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Mary Seacole : the making of a black cultural icon and humanitarian
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In the darkroom
- In the garden of beasts : [love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin]
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the shadow of the empress : the defiant lives of Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, and her daughters
- Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- Into the lion's mouth : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
- Into the wild
- Inventing the it girl : how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Jane Goodall
- Jane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- Janis : her life and music
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jesse Owens
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joey : the story of Joe Biden
- John Lewis
- John Lewis : courage in action
- Johnny Cash : the redemption of an American icon
- Josephine Baker
- Julia Morgan : an intimate biography of the trailblazing architect
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Kate DiCamillo
- King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
- Ladysitting : my year with nana at the end of her century
- Last call at the Hotel Imperial : reporters who took on a world at war
- Latinitas : celebrating big dreamers in history!
- Laverne Cox
- Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
- Left on tenth : a second chance at life
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lethal tides : Mary Sears and marine scientists who helped win World War II
- Letter to a young female physician : notes from a medical life
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Lightning down : a World War II story of survival
- Like a Rolling Stone : a memoir
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Little weirds
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun
- Lost in the valley of death : a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas
- Lotte's magical paper puppets : the woman behind the first animated feature film
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Louise Bourgeois
- Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Lyndon Johnson and the American dream : the most revealing portrait of a president and presidential power ever written
- MBS : the rise to power of Mohammed Bin Salman
- MacArthur at war : World War II in the Pacific
- Mad at the world : a life of John Steinbeck
- Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Mae Jemison
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them
- Making a scene
- Making space for women : stories from trailblazing women of NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Malala's magic pencil
- Malcolm X
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Mama in Congress : Rashida Tlaib's journey to Washington
- Man of destiny : FDR and the making of the American century
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Marcel's masterpiece : how a toilet shaped the history of art
- Marcus Rashford
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Maria Montessori
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mary Seacole : bound for the battlefield
- Mary Shelley
- Maryam's magic : the story of mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Lin
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Me
- Me and Paul : untold stories of a fabled friendship
- Me and sister Bobbie : true tales of the family band
- Megan Rapinoe
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Meghan Markle
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Mimic makers : biomimicry inventors inspired by nature
- Mirror in the sky : the life and music of Stevie Nicks
- Miss Dior : a story of courage and couture
- Mister Rogers' gift of music
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- More than marmalade : Michael Bond and the story of Paddington Bear
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mountains beyond mountains
- Mozart : the reign of love
- Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense
- Mr. McCloskey's marvelous mallards : the making of make way for ducklings
- Muhammad Ali
- Munch
- Mutinous women : how French convicts became founding mothers of the Gulf Coast
- My boy will die of sorrow : a memoir of immigration from the front lines
- Napoleon : a life
- Napoleon : the decline and fall of an empire : 1811-1821
- Natalie Wood : the complete biography
- Nelson Mandela
- Never alone : prison, politics, and my people
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Notes on grief
- Nothing but the night : Leopold & Loeb and the truth behind the murder that rocked 1920s America
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Oliver Wendell Holmes : a life in war, law, and ideas
- One damn thing after another : memoirs of an Attorney General
- One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
- One nation under baseball : how the 1960s collided with the National Pastime
- Only the best : the exceptional life and fashion of Ann Lowe
- Orwell's roses
- Our voice of fire : a memoir of a warrior rising
- Over the hills and far away : the life of Beatrix Potter
- Partnership : George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the extraordinary collaboration that won World War II
- Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler
- Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
- Patrick Mahomes
- Patsy Mink
- Paul Simon : the life
- Peace and me
- People of pride : 25 great LGBTQ Americans
- Perkin's perfect purple : how a boy created color with chemistry
- Petty : the biography
- Phenomenal AOC : the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Picasso and the painting that shocked the world
- Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Prince
- Prince Albert : the man who saved the monarchy
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris
- Putin
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Putting the rabbit in the hat : a memoir
- Queen unseen : my life with the greatest rock band of the 20th century
- Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens, Book one
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
- Raven's witness : the Alaska life of Richard K. Nelson
- Ray Bolger : more than a scarecrow
- Reagan : the life
- Rebel Cinderella : from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Red Valkyries : feminist lessons from five revolutionary women
- Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Revenge : Meghan, Harry, and the war between the Windsors
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rise of the Black quarterback : what it means for America
- Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist
- River of fire : my spiritual journey
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Robin
- Roger Federer
- Rough draft : a memoir